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O'Neil, Kathleen Ellen – Reading Teacher, 2011
Picturebooks tell stories in both words and pictures. Interacting with the printed word, the technical elements of illustration--color, line, shape and composition--work to establish and enhance the story. Sometimes simply by adding description of characters and setting, and, at times, by challenging the veracity of the text with ironic or…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Illustrations, Visual Literacy, Literacy
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Britsch, Susan – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
Teachers can integrate discussion and writing about photographs into the early childhood curriculum to build speaking, reading, and writing skills in any language. Although little available research focuses on photography and early childhood education as related specifically to English Language Learners, several current teacher resources do focus…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Photography, Early Childhood Education, Visual Learning
Feeley, Joan T. – 1975
Elementary and secondary teachers are recognizing that today's children are products of a visual era who bring visual literacy to their school language learning. Visual resources may be developed and used as a valuable motivational technique. The following programs utilizing this approach are outlined: Dorothy Lopez' development of polaroid…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7
Debes, John L. – 1972
New approaches are needed if educators are to deal successfully with the problem of teaching children to learn to read words well. Interesting questions come to the fore if those who seek solutions to this difficulty regard the reading of words as a subset of the wider problem of reading the class of visual signs in general, which includes (1)…
Descriptors: Body Language, Children, Nonverbal Communication, Reading
Braden, Roberts A., Ed.; And Others – 1988
This volume contains 47 papers presented under the following four major categories: (1) "Visual Literacy and Education," including curriculum development, teaching visual literacy, thinking skills and visual literacy, teaching video production techniques, teacher education, cable television in public schools, using filmstrips in the classroom to…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Desktop Publishing